Table 3.
Total numbers of blood-fed female An. gambiae s.l. caught using Resting Bucket Traps (RBT) in the 12 villages, from October 2016 to December 2018. Results are displayed by species, trapping location (Indoor or outdoors) and host blood source, pooled over village. ‘HBI’ indicate the ‘Human Blood Index’; estimated as the proportion of blood meals taken from humans out of the blood meals whose source could be identified.
| Species | Location | Cattle | Human | Human–cattle | Total | HBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An. arabiensis | Indoor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Outdoor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| An. coluzzii | Indoor | 18 | 23 | 4 | 45 | 0.6 |
| Outdoor | 2 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 0.82 | |
| An. gambiae | Indoor | 7 | 11 | 6 | 24 | 0.71 |
| Outdoor | 4 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 0.67 | |
| Total | 33 | 49 | 12 | 94 | 0.65 |
HBI indicate the proportion of mosquito that blood-fed on human.